Sprat,I tend to agree. But, these very things are what made this site what it is. I am leary of posting new builds but I do it anyway because I am an American, and my rights are protected by the Constitution, i.e., the 2nd amendment. Now that being said, when they haul me off to the gulag kicking and screaming I'll be thinking "I wish I had followed Sprats advise." And wise advise it is.

427, I often wonder, when I read certain posts, how old the poster is. Me? I'm a 61 year old Crippled Old Biker Bastard. And for me, this crap started back in the '60s.
I was asked by my commie pinko faggot Problems of Democracy teacher how my father treated me at home. Told him it had nothing to do with class work and was none of his business. When he asked me the fourth time, I told him if he asked me again he was going to the hospital. He didn't believe me.
Thank god for Justices of the Peace. Went before him, told my story, and he dressed down that POS teacher so bad I felt sorry for him.
I've been fighting this crap for 45 years and my father for 30 years before me. If you think it started in 2008 or 2001, you need some older friends.
Hunter

not me I am 55 what I wrote in this post was and is advice my father gave me growing up, we had a cousin who could not keep his mouth shut about what he owned, in those days its was the M-1 carbine and he had one well his house got robbed not once, but twice cause he told anyone who would listen about the rifles and pstols he owned and even after he got robbed he had not changed.

learn the lesson now, cause you may end up in jail or on bail fighting trumped up charges only to resolve the whole thing in 3 years and your property mistreated and rusty ( what did you think they would clean your confiscated firearms?)

if anyone (ANYONE) starts the conversation your answer is " I sold them all to a dealer after the event in december", and I borrow my brother in laws shotgun to hunt